preinst is in plasma-widget-networkmanagement 0.9.3.4-2.
This file is a maintainer script. It is executed when installing (*inst) or removing (*rm) the package.
The actual contents of the file can be viewed below.
| 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 | #!/bin/sh
set -e
# Remove a no-longer used conffile
rm_conffile() {
    local PKGNAME="$1"
    local CONFFILE="$2"
    [ -e "$CONFFILE" ] || return 0
    local md5sum="$(md5sum $CONFFILE | sed -e 's/ .*//')"
    local old_md5sum="$(dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}' $PKGNAME | \
            sed -n -e "\' $CONFFILE ' { s/ obsolete$//; s/.* //; p }")"
    # Do nothing if conffile is not registered for that package.
    # This behaviour is different from what dpkg-maintscript-helper is doing
    # on rm_conffile. We do this to correctly handle the case where
    # the conffile was moved from one package to another via Replaces.
    [ -n "$old_md5sum" ] || return 0
    if [ "$md5sum" != "$old_md5sum" ]; then
        echo "Obsolete conffile $CONFFILE has been modified by you."
        echo "Saving as $CONFFILE.dpkg-bak ..."
        mv -f "$CONFFILE" "$CONFFILE".dpkg-bak
    else
        echo "Removing obsolete conffile $CONFFILE ..."
        rm -f "$CONFFILE"
    fi
}
if [ "$1" = upgrade ] && dpkg --compare-versions "$2" lt-nl "0.9.0.8-2"  ; then
    # The conffile was moved from knm-runtime to p-n-m during
    # development of wheezy so we need some special handling of this case
    rm_conffile plasma-widget-networkmanagement "/etc/dbus-1/system.d/NetworkManager-kde4.conf"
    rm_conffile knm-runtime "/etc/dbus-1/system.d/NetworkManager-kde4.conf"
fi
exit 0
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